cut me some slack because i had to use a boot as a tripod. my shoulders are kinda closed and my back archs as a result, but i just came from bjj so my lats are kinda tight. anyways i figure if i warmed up for a while or used paralletes, i could hit 30 seconds (maybe more with the paralletes).

i also had a post about some front lever stuff a while ago. here's a vid of me doing the concentric ones i talked about.

the second attempt in the negative FL i tried to do a full but it just immediately caved in. one hard part about doing the negatives in there is that my feet were just barely away from touching the celing when i straddled.

Need to get out of the bad habit of trying to correct your handstand with everything BUT your forearms. Shoulders/toes/core should not be moving at all.

If anything, stretch out the lats before you do your handstand work. I need to do this too because my shoulder angle sucks. I always stretch my shoulders (lats/chest/T-spine) before any manna or HS work.

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Do your negatives in adv. tuck if you need to. It looks like you're on the verge of being able to do it straddled... but not quite there yet.

The concentrics are only "good" because you're using momentum. If you did strict there's no way you'd be in any way close to making it to front lever position. No offense or anything.

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BL -- good body shape. Obviously you wanna be a bit lower.

Hand position is not optimal. You want supinated (palms facing down) grip if you want to start working on crosses without blowing out your elbows.

Need to get out of the bad habit of trying to correct your handstand with everything BUT your forearms. Shoulders/toes/core should not be moving at all.

yeah i think i get scared when i feel too much pressure on my wrists. i tried training this one time by doing a handstand with stomach facing the wall, using my feet to gently push off, and then flexing my wrists hard to make my feet come back to the wall. i would do this for a few reps. are there other good ways to isolate this?

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Originally Posted by Steven Low

BL -- good body shape. Obviously you wanna be a bit lower.

Hand position is not optimal. You want supinated (palms facing down) grip if you want to start working on crosses without blowing out your elbows.

yeah i generally try to supinate when i do these on rings. i was kinda being lazy this time since it was a straight bar. if i warm up for a while, i can get the same positions with a supinated grip.

i just checked out that fedec stuff. that's pretty legit. maybe i can talk my girlfriend into working the hand to hand balancing. probably not though

yeah i think i get scared when i feel too much pressure on my wrists. i tried training this one time by doing a handstand with stomach facing the wall, using my feet to gently push off, and then flexing my wrists hard to make my feet come back to the wall. i would do this for a few reps. are there other good ways to isolate this?